Slide buckle



R. J. HODGE SLIDE BUCKLE Sept. 9, 1930.

Filed June 28, 1929 INVE TEIIZK Patented Sept. 9, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT J. HODGE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECT- ICUT SLIDE BUCKLE Application filed June 28,

This invention relates to slide buckles employed for holding and adjusting the length of straps without penetrating the strap material.

5, The objects of the invention are to provide a reversible slide frame with loops having strap gripping portions; to provide slide buckles with loops having spacious middle portions and narrow side portions; and to provide slide buckles with a fixed intermediate bar with attaching loops providing spaced humps considerably spaced from imaginary side lines to which the loops laterally extend.

The invention consists in the novel constructions, to be hereinafter described or claimed, for carrying out the above stated objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the figures in the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an elevation of a slide buckle; and the Figure 2 is an end view there The invention is not limited to any specific form of construction and the details of the device may be varied to produce the novel features hereinafter claimed, the device as illustrated, however, is a slide buckle comprising a frame having a pair of loops 1 and 2 separated by a fixed intermediate bar 3. The

slide buckle is preferably formed of wire a middle portion of which provides the lower bar 4 with ends bent backwardly to form the narrow side loops 5, each having a constricted entrance 6. The remaining end portions of the wire are then bent obliquely upward to provide the further inset sides 7 of the frame, and then laterally returned to form the narrow side loops 8, each having a restricted entrance 6, the free extremities of the wire being bent intolongitudinal alignment so that they may abut and be welded to provide the upper bar 9. An intermediate bar 3 is fixedly mounted upon the frame by means of the bar ends being looped around the innermost portion of each inset side 7, the looped ends of 50 the bar 3 providing the spaced humps 10 con- 1929. Serial No. 374,396.

siderably positioned within the general lateral limits oft-he frame to provide, in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the buckle, advantageous binding off-sets for a strap (not illustrated) threaded within the slide buckle. In threading a strap into the slide buckle the strap may be inserted into the spacious open ings of either of the pair of loops 1 or 2 and then urged sidewise through the restricted entrances 6 and into the narrow side loops 5 or 8, the humps 10 and the narrow side loops 5 and 8 with their restricted entrances 6 all contribute in providing for the maintenance of a tenacious holding grip upon a threaded strap.

I claim:

1. A slide buckle comprising a frame providing a pair of loops, each loop including narrow side loops having restricted entrances for gripping the marginal portions of a strap threaded into the buckle, and an intermediate bar mounted upon the frame.

2. A slide buckle comprising a frame providing a pair of loops, each loop including narrow side loops having restricted entrances for gripping the marginal portions of a strap threaded into the buckle, and an intermediate bar fixedly mounted upon the frame.

8. A slide buckle comprising a frame having upper and lower bars and considerably inset side portions and providing a pair of loops, each loop including narrow side loops having restricted entrances adjacent the upper and lower bars for gripping the marginal portions of a strap threaded into the buckle, and an intermediate bar fixedly mounted upon the frame by looped extremities of the bar looped around the inset side portions, the looped extremities providing spaced humps for strap engagement within the marginal portions of the strap.

ROBERT J. HODGE. 

